Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize 2023

Tom’s work ‘Three Days a Redleaf pool’ was hung in the 2023 Adelaide Perry Drawing Prize.
Judge: Imants Tillers

Salon des Refuses 2020

Tom’s painting of a Calitris Pine at Oratunga has been selected for this year's Salon des Refuses at the SH Ervin Gallery, Observatory Hill, Sydney.

Elizabeth Harrower

Writer and longtime friend of Tom’s, Elizabeth Harrower died in early July, aged 92.

This is a portrait he did of her in 1989.

New book, 'Womerah Lane: Lives and Landscapes'

Tom’s new book with Giramondo Publishing, Womerah lane: Lives and Landscapes, released November 2019, is now available in most good bookshops, from the Giramondo website and other online booksellers.

There is a limited edition of 50 books, for sale at $220 each (GST inc). They come in a printed blue slipcase and include three archival prints: a nocturne of Womerah lane, a flowering jacaranda in Marrickville, and a tool pegboard in a Perth shed - they can be purchased from the King Street Gallery on William or you can enquire via the Contact page on this website.

Archibald, Wynne and Sulman 2019

Tom’s entries for all three prizes have been accepted this year. Big thanks to James Scanlon for sitting for yet another portrait.

Archibald: James Scanlon, Katoomba Portrait

Sulman: Typewriter in Don's shed, Perth

Wynne: Where I scattered my Father's ashes, Oratunga, SA

Neighbourhood Paper

Tom was commissioned to write an essay about my favourite bushwalk close to Sydney, for the Neighbourhood Paper, published in its last print edition. This seems to be the end of a unique publishing adventure. The editor Mark Mordue did a great job.

Walking the Fint and Steel Track

Visit to Japan

In late September we went to Japan for twelve days to visit our son Felix who works in Tokyo as a translator. We travelled to Kyushu where we stayed for two nights in a Buddhist temple near Saga looked after by Jan's friends the Otsuos. It is surrounded by canals, dug during the Edo period, and small fields of rice and soybeans.

The Temple at Saga  2018 watercolour  10x15cm

Artists of Lavender Bay

I am in the exhibtion at the Museum of Sydney, 'Bohemian Harbour, Arists of Lavender Bay'.

I lived there during 1974 and have written an essay about my meories of that time for Sydney Living Museums magazine, 'Unlocked'.

Lavender Bay at Night 1974

Vale Michael Hobbs

Michael was a huge and enthusiastic supporter of the arts, and a friend, since the 1970s.

I painted this portrait of him in 1999.

New paintings - old habits

Tom Carment's exhibition, New paintings - old habits is on from 7 November - 2 December 2017 at the King Street Gallery on Wiliam.

177 William St, Darlinghurst 2010
02 9360 9727

Click on the image below to view full exhibiton and prices.

Alex's Olivetti Lettera oil on linen 41x51cm

Still life awards

Tom is a finalist in two upcoming national still life awards, STILL at the Coffs Harbour Regional Art Gallery and the Eutick Memorial Still Life Award in Wollongong. They have chosen two of his recent typewriter still lifes.

 Fiona's Optima  2017  oil on linen  41 x 51 cm

Office typewriter  2017  oil on linen 49 x 59 cm

Self portrait exhibition

Tom is taking part in a self-portrait exhibition, with Lucy Culliton and Wendy Sharpe, at the King Street Gallery on William, 177 William Street Darlinghurst, from 15 August until September 9.

He will show a group of small self portraits from the late 1980s to 2017 - a timeline of his ageing.

Richard Neville 1941 - 2016

My portrait of Richard, painted at Arcadia Road Glebe, in 2002.

I really enjoyed our sessions, his lively conversation.

He joked that my sitters should 'form a victims support group'.

I think that, eventually, he liked this portrait.

Vale Pat Geraghty 1928-2016

I mourn the passing of our good friend and neighbour Pat Geraghty.

Pat spent years at sea before joining the union movement, 

ending up as as head of the Australian Seamans Union.

He will be missed by the residents of Womerah Lane.